No matter how hard parts of the media have tried to brand her "the greatest threat to the constitution since the abdication crisis" – bigger even than the second world war, apparently – many people still see her on TV and think she looks like a half-decent person and politician.
Tony Bunyan, director of Statewatch, which documents European justice and home affairs policies, added: "The government's justification for not participating in Triton is cynical and an abdication of responsibility by saying that not helping to rescue people fleeing from war, persecution and poverty who are likely to perish is an acceptable way to discourage immigration".
In the strongest warning issued by a Tory, May said Britain would face its gravest crisis since the abdication of Edward VIII in 1936.
Theresa May, the home secretary, said Britain could face its gravest constitutional crisis since the abdication of Edward VIII in 1936.
Díaz argues that the authorities' failure to stop the abductions represents a blatant abdication of the Mexican state's responsibility to its citizens.
Ministers ordered the bugging of Edward VIII's telephones in Buckingham Palace and in his Windsor retreat at the height of the 1936 abdication crisis, hitherto secret papers reveal.
I'll leave it to others to comment on the astounding abdication of cultural responsibility implicit in this statement.
Theresa May was in the Mail on Sunday, stating that if Ed Miliband teamed up with Nicola Sturgeon – without question the Ursa to his Zod in this scenario – Britain would definitely be plunged into its biggest crisis since the abdication of Edward VIII.
His son George VI (who assumed the throne in 1936 after Edward's abdication) opened Canberra's provisional parliament, also while Duke of York, in 1927.
The home secretary told the Mail on Sunday: "If we saw a Labour government propped up by SNP it could be the biggest constitutional crisis since the abdication".
Home secretary Theresa May previously declared that such a government would create the "worst crisis since the abdication", and David Cameron said Miliband was out to "seize power" without winning the largest number of seats.
